health
At state park, fight is on to stop mountaintop removal
October 21, 2014The Kanawha Forest Coalition is desperately fighting a mountaintop removal project just outside of Kanawha State Forest, a state park in Loudendale, West Virginia.
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Ebola fear, monitoring ease for some in Dallas
October 20, 2014Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.
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Nurses: Ebola threat requires emergency presidential action
October 16, 2014With concern escalating bout the threat of a wider Ebola outbreak, National Nurses United today called on Obama to "invoke his executive authority."
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Nurses say U.S. hospitals not ready to tackle Ebola
October 15, 2014As the Ebola crisis appears to grow more serious, some 4,000 nurses got on a national conference call sponsored by the NNU to discuss the response at their hospitals.
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Teamsters’ teach-in spotlights environmental injustice at hazardous Missouri landfill
October 10, 2014The landfill contains 8,700 tons of un-containerized radioactive waste and there's a fire at the site.
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